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<blockquote data-quote="John" data-source="post: 17343" data-attributes="member: 1"><p>Good point here boomer. Some of you may or may not know that we have just <a href="http://gtswarm.com/community/help/terms" target="_blank">one rule here</a> (so far anyways) and it deals with personal attacks. I've had many different conversations/debates with different folks here about what constitutes a personal attack and I admit, there's definitely gray areas that we mods can't promise we'll be able to enforce consistently.</p><p></p><p>One thing I realized is that because it's such a norm and even accepted thing to do on other sites, people are caught off guard when I send them a warning about it.</p><p></p><p>So going back to boomer's point. Here's my thinking on this that I wanted to bring up as another point of discussion. If a player makes a bad play, I don't see a problem with pointing that out. Let's take an example GT player named John Smith:</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">John Smith should've made that play.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">That was a horrible play by John Smith.</li> </ul><p>I think the above two statements is critical of the player but it focuses on the plays. On the other hand, once you start calling them names, that's where a criticism turns personal:</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">John Smith was stupid all game.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">If it wasn't for [insert any swear word here] John Smith, we would've won.</li> </ul><p>Then there are extreme cases like Alabama fans that send death threats to their players. There's no gray area there. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>Thoughts?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="John, post: 17343, member: 1"] Good point here boomer. Some of you may or may not know that we have just [URL='http://gtswarm.com/community/help/terms']one rule here[/URL] (so far anyways) and it deals with personal attacks. I've had many different conversations/debates with different folks here about what constitutes a personal attack and I admit, there's definitely gray areas that we mods can't promise we'll be able to enforce consistently. One thing I realized is that because it's such a norm and even accepted thing to do on other sites, people are caught off guard when I send them a warning about it. So going back to boomer's point. Here's my thinking on this that I wanted to bring up as another point of discussion. If a player makes a bad play, I don't see a problem with pointing that out. Let's take an example GT player named John Smith: [LIST] [*]John Smith should've made that play. [*]That was a horrible play by John Smith. [/LIST] I think the above two statements is critical of the player but it focuses on the plays. On the other hand, once you start calling them names, that's where a criticism turns personal: [LIST] [*]John Smith was stupid all game. [*]If it wasn't for [insert any swear word here] John Smith, we would've won. [/LIST] Then there are extreme cases like Alabama fans that send death threats to their players. There's no gray area there. ;) Thoughts? [/QUOTE]
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